Juan Gabriel was, in the words of Carlos Monsivaisa “young, furiously provincial (cosmopolitan by any means, nationalist by pure sentiment)”, to whom “nothing has been easy, except success”. Perhaps a man about whom everything can be said, except that there is nothing more to tell.
The filmmaker Maria Jose Cuevas and the producers Laura Woldenberg e Ivonne Gutiérrez They delve into that apparently inexhaustible trail to, through a precise record of review and selection of audio files, tapes and photographs (analog and digital), construct a four-episode documentary titled Juan Gabriel: I must, I can and I want to try to understand Alberto Aguilera Valadez.
“The songs are a narrative thread in the same series. We have, in fact, three narrators (…), but a very important narrator is the themes because many are autobiographical, so we use them that way: when they managed to tell some stage of the story, but there are also others who helped us illustrate a certain thing,” says Cuevas in an interview with this medium, about the process of selecting the melodies.
‘I want, I must and I can’…
The also director of the documentary Beautiful at night know that the history of The Divo of Juarez It has been told countless times; However, consider that what makes this series of Netflix is that it is made and told “through his personal archive, and that is how the character arc begins to be built: by intimately observing the home videos of Alberto Aguilera“, that is, to know this in depth “to understand Juan Gabriel”.
Woldenberg, for his part, considered that “he is the best singer-songwriter that has given Mexico“Well, with more than 1,800 songs composed, “he also wrote hymns for others, so, musically he is an immense standard within Mexican popular culture, but he is also someone who broke so many prejudices, paradigms of the time, that he also became a very important character culturally and socially.”
“I believe that I must do it is one of the great anthems of him, of the series and of us,” noted Gutiérrez. “It is a song that we rescued, it is also a great moment of Fine Arts in 1990! It is like a high very symbolic in many ways”, however he considers that “we all have our favorite song, our favorite moment with Juan Gabriel”, although, he finally says, “I think that, symbolically, I must do it is something that represents a lot of what is narrated in the series.”
Documentary production Juan Gabriel: I want, I must and I candirected by María José Cuevas, premieres on Netflix on Thursday, October 30.
Did you know that…? For the Juan Gabriel documentary on Netflix
- 2,267 tapes were reviewed in 16 distinctive formats ranging from 1970 to 2010; 2,500 personal photographs; 30 thousand digital photographs and around 500 thousand audio files to make this documentary.
- In the four chapters of the series, 54 songs composed by Juan Gabriel appear. Of them, 50 he performs as a soloist, two in duets and two more by other artists.
- Before calling Juan GabrielAlberto Aguilera Valadez adopted the name Adán Luna as his first artistic pseudonym, in honor of the comic book superhero of the same name, whose original name is Adam Strange.
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